Deborah Perry Piscione is a principal and cofounder at Vorto Consulting, a Silicon Valley-based boutique-consulting firm dedicated to enabling companies to innovate and grow.

She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book Secrets of Silicon Valley, and an Internet entrepreneur, board advisor and nationally recognized speaker.

A former congressional and White House staffer, she spent over a decade as a media commentator on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News, PBS, and NPR programs, and her work has been covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Forbes.